The AI Revolution Could Be Bigger and Weirder Than We Can Imagine

Plain English with Derek Thompson

The Ringer

News Commentary, News

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Derek unpacks his thoughts about GPT-4 and what it means to be, possibly, at the dawn of a sea change in technology. Then, he talks to Charlie Warzel, staff writer at The Atlantic, about what GPT-4 is capable of, the most interesting ways people are using it, how it could change the way we work, and why some people think it will bring about the apocalypse. If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at [email protected]. You can find us on TikTok at www.tiktok.com/@plainenglish_ Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Charlie Warzel Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Erica Maris, founder of Ily and host of What About Your Friends.
0:05.1	A brand new show on the Ringer podcast network dedicated to the many lives of friendship
0:09.5	and how it's portrayed in pop culture.
0:11.7	Every Wednesday on the Ringer dish feed, I'll be talking with my best friends, Steven Othello,
0:15.8	and your favorites from within the Ringer and beyond about friendships on TV, and movies,
0:20.4	pop culture, and our real lives.
0:22.4	So join me every Wednesday on the Ringer dish feed where we try to answer the question TLC
0:26.3	asked back in the day.
0:27.8	What about your friends?
0:30.9	Today's episode is about AI and the release of GPT-4, but in a deeper way, it is about
0:37.6	the spookiness of feeling like you're standing at the edge of some phenomenon that you do
0:42.5	not understand at all.
0:45.4	And today's guest is a real talent at unpacking the spookiness of new technology.
0:50.0	That's the Atlantic's Charlie Wazell.
0:51.8	Now, if you don't know a lot about GPT, if you've been kind of subtly ignoring the
0:56.0	story, you might think, wait, I think I heard about this.
0:59.8	Is this the thing that students are using to cheat on tests?
1:02.6	Oh, is this a technology that powers Bing, that thing that weirdly flirted with a bunch
1:06.9	of journalists?
1:07.9	Isn't this just like a weird toy?
1:11.4	And the answer is yes.
1:13.0	It is weird, and it is kind of a toy.
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